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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She is probably not wrong about that. It’s probably an awesome spot for the Weigels of the newsroom. Less so for others. [/quote]

He was suspended without pay over an RT that he deleted and apologized for

This would have been fine for her too if she'd tweeted two, three, even four times - and then had stopped spending day and night attacking her colleagues and RTing people calling her a hero[/quote]

^ Which is not to say there's no favoritism at the Wash Post. I've only been full time staff at one publication - a really big one! you'd be impressed - and there sure as heck was there. It was infuriating, demoralizing, all the things you'd imagine. I have to expect every newsroom - every office, for that matter - has favorites who can do whatever the heck they want, and everyone else who isn't quite as special. It stinks to be on the non-special side of that.

But even if you're mad, you still can't throw a nonstop tantrum on Twitter, keep going after your boss says to stop, and expect you're going to come out still employed.[/quote]

[b]Objecting to a colleague’s sexist tweets is not a “tantrum.” [/b]It’s standing up for equity in the workplace and what the Post did by firing her is retaliation.[/quote]
I agree with this, but she didn't just object and keep it moving. It would be one thing if she had gone to Dave and said "What you retweeted was super gross, to the point of actually being offensive, and I hope you'll consider taking it down." Honestly, if Dave made her uncomfortable (I wouldn't blame her for that, the guy looks like a skeeze and clearly is a moron if he finds the tweet funny in the first place but then is also dumb enough to tweet it from his PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNT) she could've gone to management and said "Dave's tweet was offensive." She didn't do that. She broached the subject via a snarky tweet about the retweet and then continued to fight her colleagues via twitter and air Post dirty laundry.[/quote]

Even the first tweet didn't get her in trouble. Sure, yes, the better thing would be to talk to your colleague privately - but where't the public glory in that? And I think she even had a lot of support after that first tweet, and no rebuke from her employer. It was when she would not stop tweeting after she already got what she wanted that she ran into trouble.[/quote]

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